Culinary Arts

New York: Home Economics Department of American Can Company. Softcover. 32 pages. A charming collection of recipes all created and tested in the Canco Testing Kitchen. Includes numerous color and black and white images along with some line drawings. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Scarce. Item #125044 More

Dorchester, MA: Walter Baker & Co., Inc., 1928. Softcover. Includes numerous color illustrations and recipes. An about good copy in stapled wrappers with some small chips and tears but internally a clean copy. Item #145633 More

San Francisco, CA: The Canners League of California (Asparagus Section), nd. Small stapled softcover. 24 pages. A collection of facts about and recipes using aspargus in a wide range of dishes. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Scarce, with only 3 copies listed in OCLC. Item #145631 More

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1991. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A collection of recipes that includes photographs by Dorothy Handelman. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Adams on the half title page. Item #115425 More

New York: Walker Publishing Co., 1971. First edition. Oblong hardcover. 91 pages. Includes numerous illustrations. An about near fine copy in an about very good dust jacket that has a number of small edge tears and wear. Item #130425 More

New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 224 pages. A book of menus and food that was a companion to their book "Fit For a King." A very near fine copy in a very good plus price clipped dust jacket with some very minor wear, a small tear and asssociated crease to the top of the front panel and tape repair to the verso. Item #158789 More

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce Publishers, 1939. Second edition. Hardcover. Edited by Ramiel McGehee. Features text by Louis Untermeyer, Marie Beynon Ray, Merle and Elsa Armitage, Crosby Gaige, Frank Conroy and Abbe Ernest Dimnet. Also includes drawings by Elise and four black and white photographs of vegetables by Edward Weston. A clean and tight very near fine copy. No dust jacket. A very attractive book. Item #158846 More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 316 pages. A collection of recipes and text by Beard with the assistance of José Wilson and with illustrations by Bill Greer. An about fair copy with some minor soiling and wear and a gift inscription on the first blank leaf in a fair dust jacket that has some edge wear, staining and wear. A good reference copy. Item #133174 More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A collection of Beard's pasta recipes accompanied by drawings by Karl W. Stuecklen. A tight near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear to the top of the front panel and some other minor wear and some toning to the edges. Item #160043 More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 625 pages. Another terrific and informative cookbook. Includes 1000 recipes. A tight near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a few edge tears, some slight wear and fading to the spine. Item #142754 More

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. Later printing. Hardcover. 460 pages. A book of recipies that was originally published as "James Beard's Fish Cookery." Includes drawings by Harry O. Diamond. A tight near fine copy in a poor dust jacket with a long tear to the front panel that has been tape repaired on the verso and with a large chip from the rear flap. Item #129459 More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 517 pages. Bocuse is one of the more important French chefs of the 20th century. Includes numerous color illustrations along with over 1100 of his recipes. A very good plus copy with some light bumping to the corners in a very good plus dust jacket with a long tear to the top of the front panel. Still, a very nice copy. Item #158957 More

Los Angeles, CA: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1951. Second printing. Small hardcover. A collection of over 100 recipes. A very good copy in striped cloth boards with paper labels on the front panel and spine with some minor wear. No dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Brown on the front free endpaper. Uncommon as such. Item #152849 More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Photographs by John Dominis with illustrations by Glenn Wolff. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a small bump to one corner. Item #115871 More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 243 pages. A collecttion of writings and recipes by Child with the assistance of E.S. Yntema and with photographs by James Scherer. A close to near fine copy with some minor wear in an about very good dust jacket that has some edge tears, small chips, wear and some soiling as well. Still, a solid copy. Item #160465 More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First printing.. Massive cookbook with numerous recipes and color photographic illustrations. A tight close to near fine copy with some slight bumping to the bottom of the spine in a very good plus dust jacket that is folded slightly off center and with some rumpling to the rear panel. Item #122338 More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Eighteenth printing. Hardcover. 684 pages. The instant classic cookbook which helped launch Julia Child into the collective consciouness of America. Illustrations by Sidonie Coryn. A clean near fine copy in an about very good price clipped dust jacket that has a number of small chips, tears and some edge wear. Item #155332 More

New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A collection of recipes from the owner of Craft restaurants and the head judge of the tv show Top Chef. Text by Colicchio, and Catherine Young, Lori Silverbush, Marco Canaro and Karen De Marsco. Includes numerous recipes along with color and black and white photographs by Bill Bettencourt. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed: "Cook often eat well Tom Colicchio" on the title page and uncommon as such. Item #149542 More

Chicago, IL: Kraft Cheese Company, 1942. First edition. Oblong hardcover. 63 pages. Text by Kraft's Director of Home Economics. Includes some color illustrations along with numerous cheese based recipes. A very good plus copy in cloth boards that are lightly soiled but internally a clean copy. No dust jacket. Item #144363 More

Bridgehampton, NY: Hampton Day School Press, 1972. First edition. Oblong softcover. A cookbook with a foreword by Truman Capote. A very good plus copy in spiral bound wrappers with some minor wear and a small chip to the plastic spiral binding. Item #155807 More

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A clean very near fine copy with slight bumping to the bottom corners in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Field on the title page. Item #115413 More

Newton, MA: Phillips Publishers Inc, 1953. First edition. Softcover. Illustrated by Barbara Corrigan with numerous black and white and color drawings. A fine very fresh copy in the spiral binding in a very near fine illustrated cardboard box with some splitting but still intact. A lovely copy. Item #109032 More

Nicolas Depuis, 1966. First edition. Softcover. Text in French. Attractive list of wines with numerous full pages color illustrations by Paul Guiramand. A near fine copy in full color wrappers with some very minor wear to the spine and edges. Item #122050 More

New York: William Morrow & Co., 2003. Later printing. Hardcover. 268 pages. Subtitled: Kitckin' It Up a Notch with Recipes from Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril." Includes numerous recipes and black and white images. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket.Signed and inscribed by Emeril on the front free endpaper. Item #155428 More